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I am facing this issue where the graphics resolution on my Laptop has gone worse after Ubuntu install.

The problem crept up after I updated my grub to have a dual boot of Ubuntu and Windows 7. I was faced with a black screen, once I restarted the system.

Research on ask ubuntu pointed me to a solution where you have to replace the quiet spalsh with nomodeset. I tried that but to no avail. The graphics would still not be corrected. I have tried the following as of now

Since my system is an AMD system with ATI Radeon graphics card, so I also tried this

radeon.modeset=0

But the issue still persisted.

I then tried changing the GRUB_GFXMODE line in the grub file to have that match the system resolution which is 1024x768. But this step has also failed to correct the graphics situation. Am I missing some drivers from the Linux part, because the graphics are perfectly fine if I boot Windows.

System Configuration :

AMD A4 Vision

Dual Core ATI Radeon Graphics 1GB

Windows 7/ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

4 GB RAM

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So after searching a lot on the internet I finally corrected the graphics on my system. I came upon a bug filed for Ubuntu 14.04.2, which is the version I am using.

Here is the link to the bug filed :bug #1424491

Scroll down to comment #24 by Nestor Acevedo. I followed the commands mentioned by him

sudo apt-get install libcheese*

followed by

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core

and finally installed the fglrx updates through this command

sudo apt-get install fglrx

This corrected the graphics distortion on my system.

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